From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-background-color Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:01:05 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014013019 8665 195.204.10.66 (18 Feb 2002 06:16:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Feb 2002 06:16:59 GMT Cc: David.Kastrup@t-online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16ch6g-0002Ff-00 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:16:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16cgtk-0000zk-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:03:36 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16cgs7-0000vL-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01882; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:01:05 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: <200202172250.g1HMok212950@santafe.santafe.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1280 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1280 On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > In interactive usage, set-background-color provides completion, to ease > the burden of typing the long color names. The fact that you cannot > choose hex notation there is a side effect of that completion. I think > completion is more important than the ability to use arbitrary hex values > interactively, in this case. > > It ought to be possible to support both forms, and provide completion > that works only in the case of the color names and is a no-op for # > colors. That would be a good thing to do. I'm not sure: I have vague recollection that the current code was changed during v21.1 development, for some good reason. I will look into this. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel